# calibre
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkæl.ɪ.bə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkæl.ə.bɚ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkæl.ə.bə(ɹ)/
* Hyphenation: cal‧i‧ber

### Noun

calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)
* (UK, Canada, etc.) Alternative form of caliber.

#### Derived terms

* multicalibre
* subcalibre

#### Related terms

* calibrate

### Anagrams

* caliber

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French calibre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kəˈli.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kəˈli.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈli.bɾe]

### Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)
* caliber

#### Derived terms

* calibrar

### Further reading

* “calibre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.libʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ibʁ
* Hyphenation: ca‧libre

### Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)
* calibre
    gros calibre ― large calibre, large bore; high calibre

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: калі́бр (kalíbr)
* → Bulgarian: кали́бър (kalíbǎr)
* → Catalan: calibre
* → Czech: kalibr
* → Danish: kaliber
* → Dutch: kaliber
** → Indonesian: kaliber
* → English: calibre, caliber
* → Galician: calibre
* → German: Kaliber
** → Estonian: kaliiber
** → Finnish: kaliiperi (or from Swedish)
** → Latvian: kalibrs
** → Lithuanian: kalibras
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: kalíbar
    Cyrillic script: кали́бар
** → Slovene: kaliber
* → Hungarian: kaliber
* → Italian: calibro
* → Norwegian Bokmål: kaliber
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaliber
* → Polish: kaliber
* → Portuguese: calibre
* → Romanian: calibru
* → Russian: кали́бр (kalíbr)
** → Bashkir: калибр (kalibr)
** → Kazakh: калибр (kalibr)
** → Ossetian: калибр (kalibr)
** → Tajik: калибр (kalibr)
** → Tatar: калибр (qalibr)
** → Uzbek: калибрли (kalibrli)
* → Sardinian: calabru
* → Slovak: kaliber
* → Spanish: calibre
** → Tagalog: kalibre
* → Swedish: kaliber
* → Turkish: kalibre
* → Ukrainian: калі́бр (kalíbr)

### Verb

calibre
* inflection of calibrer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “calibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* ciblera

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈli.bɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈli.bɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈli.bɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈli.bɾɨ/ [kɐˈli.βɾɨ]
* Hyphenation: ca‧li‧bre

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)
* caliber / calibre (dimension)
* gauge (mathematics, physics)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

calibre
* inflection of calibrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈlibɾe/ [kaˈli.β̞ɾe]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -ibɾe
* Syllabification: ca‧li‧bre

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French calibre. Doublet of gálibo.

#### Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)
* calibre
* calipers
* jig, gauge (tool)

##### Derived terms

* calibrar
* compás de calibres

##### Descendants

* → Tagalog: kalibre

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

calibre
* inflection of calibrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “calibre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10